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The Great Escape
In The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde tells a story about the escape from the socially acceptable and expected life of men and women. This story istold through the lives of two pairs of romantic lovers. Wilde has two ways of representing a form of escape for both men and women; the men traditionally have more social freedom then women, so it is easier for them to create a physical escape from the life they do not want to primarily lead. However, women do not have the same freedom to create a physical alternate life, so they turn to their own imagination and create a mental escape contained in a journal. In this story these alternate lives merge together to make one existence in which all four people find something worth giving up these double lives. The two male characters in this story are Algernon Moncrieff and Ernest Worthing. Both create intermittent lives that provide something the other doesn’t. Ernest Worthing originally lives in the country......

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